MP 064: Discipling and Disciplining Our Teenagers – Part 1
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
"Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations."
~Dr. James Dobson
There are few tasks in parenting that can be as challenging or rewarding as disciplining sons and daughters who are moving from childhood to adulthood, otherwise known as teenagers. This is an important time of transition for them, and it is a time of transition for parents as well. Old ways of communicating and protecting them will not be as effective as they were. Some families breeze through this time, while it takes a heavy toll on others. In this podcast, we would like to give some foundational principles that we have found very helpful in discipling, not just disciplining, children who are going through this amazing and critical transformation in their lives. This podcast had so much information in it, that we decided to break it up into two parts. The second part will be out next week.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Alicia. |
| 0:09.6 | And we are far from experts, but we are trying to give you some conversation starters for you and your spouse on how to be more intentional in the way that you parent and the way that you live |
| 0:21.9 | out your marriage and family life. We are not counselors. We are not, you know, although we will |
| 0:27.5 | take all credit for good advice. We primarily are just trying to give you some of the experiences |
| 0:32.6 | of the ups and the downs. We're just giving advice. That's right. Because we've got, we've got, |
| 0:36.5 | we've got 10 kids, and so we've had some experiences, and some of them actually have been pretty good. |
| 0:42.9 | Right. |
| 0:43.6 | And I think that in this area is, I think has been one of the biggest challenges in our parenting. |
| 0:51.1 | That's so true. |
| 0:51.6 | And that is with disciplining teenagers. |
| 0:54.7 | And we thought we had it figured out. |
| 0:56.2 | Absolutely. |
| 0:56.7 | We were feeling super confident when, you know, our oldest was like 10 years old. |
| 1:00.6 | We were like, you got this. |
| 1:01.7 | We had like six kids at that point. |
| 1:03.1 | We're like, ah, it's not so bad. |
| 1:04.4 | We could write a book. |
| 1:05.7 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:07.4 | We could do a podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, little did we know. We were not ready to do a podcast at that point, not at all. |
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